Feed-mixing machine.



PATENTED DEC. 19, 1905. H. E. MOSS. FEED MIXING MACHINE.

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APPLICATION TILED MAILZB, 1905.

No. 807,484. v PATENTED DEC. 19, 1905.

H. E. MOSS. FEED MIXING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 23, 1905.

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Witnesses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOF.

HENRY E. MOSS, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO OYPHERS INCUBATOR (30., OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

FEED-MIXING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY E. Moss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed-Mixing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to feed-mixing machines, and more particularly to a machine for mixing poultry-food; and my object is to produce a machine of this character which may be adapted for mixing feed in varying relative proportions.

A further object is to produce a machine of this character which operates efficiently and reliably and which is of simple, strong, durable, compact, and cheap construction.

To these ends the invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and organization, as hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section taken substantially on the line II II of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a section taken on the line III III of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line IV IV of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of a swinging valve-frame with the walking-beams and lever for operating said frame and beams, shown in section. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the reciprocatory valve.

In the said drawings, 1 indicates the standards or le s of the machine, and 2 the rectangular body portion thereof secured to said legs. The body portion is open at its upper end, and its side walls taper downward to effect communication with the trough 4, containing a spiral conveyer 5 or its equivalent for mixing the feed and conveying it from the machine to the point desired. The sides of the body portion are provided with openings 6, controlled by doors 7, hinged, as at 8, to the body portion, suitable turn-buttons or other fastening devices 9 being employed to hold the doors in their closed positions. In order that those in charge may observe the passage of the grain through the machine without opening the doors, the latter are provided with glass panes, as at 10.

11 indicates vertical transverse partitions dividing the body into a plurality of chambers 12 and 13 is a board forming the bottom of said chambers and provided with holes 14, arranged in sta gered relation and each communicating with one of the chambers 12, and secured to the bottom of said board and depending therefrom to form an extension of openings 14 are short tubes 15.

16 indicates spacing-blocks to be intro duced into the chambers 12 through the dooropening, one or more blocks being disposed in the chamber to diminish its capacity, said blocks occupying space in said chambers which would otherwise be occupied by feed. The spacing-blocks are provided with holes 17 in vertical alinement with holes 14.

18 indicates blocks to rest upon the bottom 13 or upon the blocks 16 upon the bottom and provided with downwardly-tapering holes 19, registering with and forming flaring mouths for holes 14 and the holes 17 if the spacing-blocks are employed. These blocks 18, like the spacing-blocks, may be placed in or removed from position through the door-opening. The vertical transverse partitions 11 terminate short of the upper end of the body, and secured to the latter a slight distance above said partitions is a horizontal partition 20, provided with staggered holes 21, having short tubes 22 depending from said holes.

23 indicates vertical transverse partitions for the body portion above bottom 20, so as to provide the chambers 24, superposed with relation to chambers 12, and said chambers 24 contain beveled blocks 25 to insure that practically all of the feed which may be in said chambers shall pass through openings 21 when the slide-valve 26 is adjusted to dispose its openings 27 opposite tubes 22. This slide-valve is preferably a flat horizontallyarranged plate provided with perforations to rest upon partitions 11 and against the lower ends of tubes 22. The valve extends through the slots 28 in the end walls of the body and terminates in arms 29, connected by the crossrods 30, mounted in short longitudinal slots 31 in the upper ends of the walking-beams levers 32, pivoted on cross-rods 33 of brackets 34, secured to the end walls of the body.

35 indicates cross-rods carried by and at the lower ends of the walking-beams, and pivotally mounted at their opposite ends on said rods are longitudinal bars 36, provided at their upper sides with staggered valve-plates 37 to cover oruncover the lower ends of tubes 15, uncovering said tubes when valve 26 is covering tubes 22, and vice versa, though it will be understood in this connection that while the valve 26 has a direct reciprocating movement, permitted because of the slots 31 in the upper ends of the walking-beams, valves 37 have a swinging movement to cover or uncover the openings, a lever 38, pivoted to rod 35 and fulcrumed as at 39, on one of the rods 33, being employed to effect the proper adjustment of the valves.

When the machine is first started in operation, the valves 37 are closing tubes 15, and

the reciprocatory valve has its openings opposite openings 21, so that the grain falling continuously through the overhanging spouts or conveyers 40 (shown in dotted lines as depending slightly within the upper chambers) may pass directly through such registering openings 21 and 27 and accumulate in chambers 12. When the chambers 12 are com pletely filled, the operator should throw the valves to theposition shown in Fig. 2 in order that the mixture of the grain or feed shall be proportionate to the exact capacity of said chambers, such grain or feed of course dropping down into trough 1 and being mixed and conveyed to the desired point at the same time by the spiral conveyer. Now should the operator fail to adjust the valves when said chambers 12 become filled the grain could continue to fall and fill chambers 24 also, and as soon as the latter were filled to the level of the lower ends of the superposed spouts 10 the grain would simply pile up in said spouts and could not overflow said chambers, which find their chief value in the fact that they support the grain in a position most convenient for close inspection and examination by the operator. For instance, the operator may take the grain in his hand and examine it without interfering with the operation of the machine. As soon as all of the grain has been discharged from chambers 12 the operator, ascertaining this fact by looking through the glass doors, manipulates the lever to reverse the position of the valves, so as to close the bottom of chambers 12 and open up communication between such chamber and the top chamber and permit the grain accumulated in the top chambers and afterward that from the spouts to enter and accumulate in chambers 12 until the latter are again filled, when the valves are reversed, as hereinbefore explained. All subsequent operations are repetitions of those described.

' portion, detail construction, and arrangement of the parts without departing from the principle of construction involved or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

1. A machine of the character described, comprising a body portion divided into a series of lower chambers having staggered valve-controlled openings in their bottoms, and a corresponding series of upper chambers superposed with relation to the lower chamber and also having staggered valve-controlled openings in their bottoms, and provided with an opening in its side wall communicating with the lower chambers, and with a door controlling said opening, blocks to rest on the bottoms of the lower chambers and provided with downwardly-tapering holes registering with the holes of said bottoms, and means whereby said valves shall be operated simultaneously.

2. A machine of the character described, comprising a body portion divided into a series of lower chambers having staggered openings in their bottoms, and a corresponding series of upper chambers superposed with relation to the lower chambers, and also having staggered openings in their bottoms, and provided with an opening in its side wall communicating with the lower chambers,

and with a door controlling said opening, blocks to rest on the bottoms of the lower chambers and provided with downwardlytapering holes registering with the holes of said bottoms, a reciprocatory valve disposed between said chambers and provided with a staggered series of holes, bars underlying the bottoms of the lower chambers and provided with staggered valves, walking-beams fulcrumed upon the end walls of the body and having a pin-and-slot connection at their upper ends with the reciprocatory valve'and having a pivotal connection at their lower ends with said bars, and a lever for operating said walking-beams in one direction or the other.

3. A machine of the character described, comprising a body portion divided into a series of lower chambers having staggered openings in their bottoms, and a corresponding series of upper chambers superposed with relation to the lower chambers, and also having staggered openings in their bottoms, and provided with an opening in its side wall communicating with the lower chambers, and with a door controlling said opening,

blocks resting on the bottoms of the lower chambers and provided with downwardly-' tapering holes registering with the holes of said bottoms, one or more spacing-blocks interposed between the bottom and the firstnamed blocks of each chamber and provided with holes registering with the holes of its bottom, a reoiprocatory valve disposed between said chambers and provided with a staggered series of holes, bars underlying the said walking-beams in one direction or the bottoms of the lower chambers and provided other. T0 with staggered valves, walking-beams ful- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature crumed upon the end walls of the body and in the presence of two witnesses.

5 having a pin-and-slot connection at their up- HENRY E. MOSS.

per ends with the reciprocatory valve, and Witnesses: having a pivotal connection at their lower H. C. RODGERS,

ends with said bars, and a lever for operating G. Y. THORPE. 

